12 to 24 player support in patch 1.29 (why exactly 24?)

[KKLD]

Hello everyone,

I have been wondering why Blizzard chose to change the maximum number of player slots from 12 to 24. More specifically why exactly 24?

I know from the World Editor that there are 4 slots used for neutral hostile, neutral victim, neutral passive and neutral extra.

This leaves us with 24+4=28 slots vs. 12+4=16 slots in previous versions.

My question is, why 28 players in total? Isn't the player stored with 32 possible values (player 0-31)? What happened to the last 4 players? Isn't it stupid to stop at 28, and not 32, while you are working? Do it right from the beginning, so to speak?

But I assume that I misunderstood how it works?

 

[Sieben]

Theoretically, I suppose it would be possible to add four more players or even more. However, remember that each player must have a unique colour, and that colour must be easily recognisable. If you add more players, you add more colours, and players will be harder to distinguish.

 

[KKLD]

Theoretically, I suppose it would be possible to add four more players or even more. However, remember that each player must have a unique colour, and that colour must be easily recognisable. If you add more players, you add more colours, and players will be harder to distinguish.

Ohh well it is a shame that they stopped because of colours. They could have added 4 additional neutral extra players if figuring out 4 additional colours was a problem - that way mapmakers could use them for something